Killer Mine - Softcover

Innes, Hammond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006118631 ISBN 13: 9780006118633

Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1969

Synopsis

From the author of THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE, a thriller about an army deserter. A man is smuggled back into Britain, many years after he went AWOL. He walks straight into a mining disaster which triggers off a pitiful catalogue of madness and grief that involves his family legacy of neurotic insanity.

About this title

Review:

"Hammond Innes was a compulsive storyteller... he had an inborn ability to relate a fast-moving narrative with a knack that drove the story on and kept the reader in rapt attention" (Scotsman)

"Thank goodness for Hammond Innes. He gets better with every book" (The Times)

"People say people can’t write stories anymore. Tell that to Hammond Innes" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

Smuggled illegally into his native land after many years' absence, army deserter Jim Pryce finds himself deposited on a Cornish beach. Little does he suspect, setting out along the road to Penzance, that he is about to walk straight into a mine disaster, and into a story involving his own history.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0006118631
• ISBN 13: 9780006118633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192